SEEKING SIGNIFICANCE

 

Never been afraid of dying

Just the thought of my children crying

Trudging along each day

Seeking significance

Plots

Knotted nicely

It’s the drama I despise

Militant mindsets

Lyrical laughter

Low maintenance mirth

Vintage verity

Complications

Purely consequential

Life of pain

What’s left of it

After thirty loaded years

Arthritic hip ablaze

Rumors of tumors

Cheating death some believe

Not hardly says I

Merely stalling paradise

Old man dozing

Years flying by him

Lot’s of water under his bridge

I smile with realization

He is me

Simply no worries

As it should be

 

 

 

© Bill Grimes Jr. 2009

Reviews

[Walkingblind]

I like how you painted life with such intense yet vibrate
words, you've described your life as road for us to follow with our eyes
as we make our own with our feet. We all seek significance in our lives
a meaning to living, some evidence that we belong and we all get wounded
along the way. Great poem Bill!

[R. Gene MacDonald]

Yes, I take this to be a very revealing insight into who Bill Grimes truly is. Okay, so I don't suddenly know everything about you, but this poem shows that there are so many ups and downs in our lives. There are so many scary things that can happen to us, or that we can do to ourselves. We worry, people worry about us. Yes you are deffinitly human, BIll. These lines are just beautiful, "Cheating death some believe Not hardly says I Merely stalling paradiseOld man dozingYears flying by himLot's of water under his bridgeI smile with realizationHe is me." NIce job, friend.

[Shelly Araujo]

Hi Bill, my favorite line of your poem is "Just the thought of my children crying". Nothing that makes be feel more significant in my life than that for sure. You brought to mind a memory from when I was very young and I came upon an even younger friend crying because he realized that at some point he would be gone from here and maybe no one would remember him. I was too young and the intensity of his feelings were very confusing and scary for me. I realized later that he was way ahead of his time. Thanks for reminding me that all the pain of life means we are still here. Beautiful work!